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Episode 403: Virgin Deorbit
Spaceflight News
— Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens Soyuz-5 program (nasaspaceflight.com)
— Virgin Orbit Layoffs (spacenews.com) (qz.com)
— Rosotics announces large-scale 3D printer (spacenews.com) (newatlas.com) (rosotics.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: Tiangong has trash too (twitter.com/cnspaceflight)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 5 April, 1963: A Pontiac Catalina tows M2-F1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) (projecthabu.com) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)
— Next week (4/11 - 4/17) in 2016: Storage on Orbit